Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue

Author: Ron Platt, Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, Kinshasha Conwill
Publisher: Grand Rapids Art Museum/DelMonico Books
Year: 2022
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-1636810454

Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems met in New York in the late 1970s, and over the next 45 years these close friends and colleagues have each produced unique and influential bodies of work around shared interests and concerns. This publication brings together over 140 photographs and video art from the 1970s through the 2010s by two of our most notable and influential photo-based artists.

Since first meeting at the Studio Museum in Harlem five decades ago, Bey and Weems have maintained spirited and supportive mutual engagement while exploring and addressing similar themes: race, class, representation, and systems of power. Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue brings their work together in five thematic groupings to shed light on their unique creative visions and trajectories, and their shared concerns and principles.